Diabetes confers little to no increased risk of postoperative complications after hip fracture surgery in geriatric patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diabetes and hip fractures in geriatric patients are common, and many elderly patients have a history of diabetes. However, the influence of diabetes on surgical complications may vary based on which particular type of diabetes a patient has. To our knowledge, no prior study has stratified patients with diabetes to compare patients with noninsulin-dependent and insulin-dependent diabetes regarding rates of postoperative adverse events, length of hospitalization, and readmission rate after surgical stabilization of hip fractures in geriatric patients.

Questions/purposes

We asked whether patients with noninsulin-dependent or insulin-dependent diabetes are at increased risk (1) of sustaining an aggregated serious adverse event, aggregated minor adverse event, extende

SUBMITTER: Golinvaux NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4317441 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature